Yarn Along: July

If it's not too late, I'm going to link up with Ginny's Yarn Along for this month.

What a month it's been so far. . . That's another post for (hopefully) another day sometime soon.

For now, a quick update on what I've been knitting and reading since the June Yarn Along.

I finished the socks I was making for DD1's birthday, and apparently forgot to photograph them.  They have all ready been gifted, and looking back through my pictures since June 1st, I can't find a photo of the finished product. Oh well.  She likes them, that's what matters most.

After finishing the socks, I went back to working on my Hue Shift afghan, casting on for the fourth and final section. It's going slowly, because I have been way too busy with gardening, and chickens and family to knit much at all.  In fact, it sat untouched for two weeks before I picked it up again and spent barely a half hour on it before setting it aside.  Sooner or later, I will finish it.  I think if things go well, maybe even this month.

The library finally reopened three weeks ago, for curbside pickup of materials ordered online.  So I did manage to read a book; Tending Roses by Lisa Wingate.  Although I've liked every other book I've read by this author, I found this one somewhat annoying in the resolutions of problems in the story-line, and almost returned it to the library without finishing it.

Currently I am reading Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers and really enjoying it.